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Russell Kirk : American Conservative /

merging from two decades of the Great Depression and the New Deal and facing the rise of radical ideologies abroad, the American Right seemed beaten, broken, and adrift in the early 1950s. Although conservative luminaries such as T. S. Eliot, William F. Buckley Jr., Leo Strauss, and Eric Voegelin al...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Birzer, Bradley J., 1967- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Baltimore, Maryland : Project Muse, 2015
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • 1. Desert humanist
  • 2. Stoic prophet
  • 3. Recovering the conservative mind
  • 4. A Christian humanism
  • 5. A republic of letters in the modern age
  • 6. Sojourning the waste land : friendship, thought, and poetry in the age of Eliot
  • 7. The politics of the impossible
  • 8. Ghosts in the machine ... and the house
  • 9. The center cannot hold
  • 10. The married Bohemian
  • Conclusion : poetry against boredom.